What is it with Republicans and their extreme views? The world isn't black and white.
this is not done by accident, this is part of a good strategy of making people use the older 'lizard brain' part of their minds and the fact that the simpler the situation the more it appeals to the populace who neither have the desire or in their view the time to think.
nope sorry. choose one random game and 9 out of 10 times you can't get a demo of it. also the ones you do get play better then the actual games now, company's have turned them into a form of advertisement which hurts your ability to choose IF the game is worth half a weeks grocery's. i would rather download the full game, see that it sucks and be glad i did not waste the $50-$60. instead of download the demo, like it because they made it better then the game then go out and waste that money on the full game which i can't return because no store will accept a open box of software. I can't even go out and sell it to a buy/sell/ or trade store because these company's actually go out of their way to close them down.
here is a idea for a mmorpg pay model. you sign up for a universal mmorpg pay pass. you will need to give them all your personal information including your last pay stub. then they just directly deduct 25 dollars per game per month you sign up for. if you loose your job they take it out of your savings. if your savings are empty they arrange for a loan(with a modest 10-15% interest rate). your going to be throwing $100's annually without a second thought. might as well give them a free pass to your finances. The main reason for the success of these games is not that they provide people with something good, it's that the general populace doesn't know how to think more then a few months ahead and do something simple as ADD. They are also ripping you off on the cost as well considering if they can support the game and turn a profit with the 6 month plan means they are easily charging you double or more then what they should for monthly fees. W.o.W. $14.99 per month x 12 months = $179.88
face it. The reason why games are dieing is that they got greedy. Pirating is only a symptom of this not the problem. Lower your prices, and i promise you will see a increase in sales
not to vote this time around. honestly from what i have seen the system has been corrupted in a way that you cannot make effective change from within the system. you can't get any higher then your local city government if you refuse to sell out to the corporations on either major party(which in my honest opinion is the reason why we only see dem's and repub's higher up.) i am going to hunker down and wait for the firestorm to blow over and then try to help who ever survives pick up the pieces.
it's only modern misunderstanding that started the view that fat from food = fat on your body thus fat from food is bad. it was fat(the good kind of fat, saturated fat is the bad kind) and protein from meat that fueled our development and allowed our brain to be so energy hungry compared to the rest of our body. it's called affluent malnutrition for a reason, modern food can keep you alive but doesn't provide all you need. even healthy diets miss the point, mainly due to insisting you eat food like grains that have to be highly processed to remove most of the stuff that our body can't process or is poisonous to us. also moderation is needed.
thats mainly because of the well documented hight crash humans had once we started agriculture. in fact our highet has only recently returned to the pre-agriculture norm.
no, nature doesn't care or exhibit any emotions. the mutation spread because of advantages it gives int his temporary situation. though those advantages though are temporary. also milk contains more then just lactose and nutrients it contains hormones and enzymes that are tailored for bovines, processing can take most but not all of them out. so bovine milk falls into the edible but un-healthy catagory of food.
nope. while soap helped stopped some diseases, the vast majority have been stopped due to adding anti-bacterial products to the same soaps. even then most of them are the cause of living together in such large numbers with such easy travel between large population centers.
while our obsession on anti-biotic this and that has created a world where people lack immunities to bugs that our ancestors would of shrugged off. as anyone should know when you are born you share the same anti-bodies as your mother for the first two weeks of life for protection while the baby's own anti-bodies learn from them. this is how polio became such a problem it's a weak virus but when has no immunity it's devastating. also it doesn't just stop there. it's also what we eat. the human body evolved to basically eat animals for fat and protein and fruit/veggies for the rest, this may surprise people but we did not evolve to eat grain or dairy(other then human breast milk) yet the majority of our current food has the following.
* Highly processed foods that are deficient in important vitamins and minerals
* Synthetic food compounds
* High in refined sugars
* High in saturated fat
* Deficient in fiber
* Mega-size portions
* High in calories you can drink milk only because of a recent mutation of a human gene. a normal human would not be able to eat any kind of dairy with lactose in it because once they reach maturity the gene for that gets turned off. this was about 6,000 years ago. the rest of the stuff in cow milk other then the nutrients are things we are not evolved to eat and might be the cause of some of out illnesses, along with the lectains in grain which can even block the absorption of protein.
in the days before corporations were considered people(it was a huge mistake to consider them people btw)
doing what Microsoft does would of resulted in their charter being nullified by the government and all it's assets being seized before being auctioned off to it's competitors. along with what ever charges need to be filed against the people responsible.
stuff like this encouraged proper behavior by actually giving teeth to the consequences when a company misbehaved. now all they get is a fine that is a small fraction of their income and toothless warning not to do it again.
that apple had motherboard maker foxconn make their ipods in china using basically sla.. excuse me indentured servant labor.
the only thing apple does make themselves is their so called image. even their os is heavily based on a bsd clone. as for a gui, i hate to point it out to you that just about any person who knows the api calls can do the same so it's no real feat there, ever look at the tons of themes and engines available for kde and gnome as well as window-blinds?
it looks like people will go to the older more efficeint systems to play.
the psx surprises me with the 4-6 watt usage.
also people might think the costs are minor now with 15 cents per kwh, but wait till it's 45 to 60 cents.
half the stuff you see in your house was most likely made in a sweat shop in Asia.
to put it bluntly the first world can't exist without the exploitation of the third world, whether it be for natural resources such as oil, natural gas, ore, or even slave labor.
i don't call any of those reviews because they fail to say the reason that the performance drops is because the system has to draw MORE objects with the card in it then without it. take anandtech's review. they turn the object number up to about 4x the amount compared to the software only test, the result is of course obvious because the gpu has to draw 4x~ the amount of objects. i have yet to find a single review that does not do what anandtech does, which is stack the deck against ageia. btw in a proper review you get rid of all the variables other then the one you want to test. in this case they should of turned the object number down to the same level as the software only solution had it.
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this is not done by accident, this is part of a good strategy of making people use the older 'lizard brain' part of their minds and the fact that the simpler the situation the more it appeals to the populace who neither have the desire or in their view the time to think.
no
it will probably be the last os you can buy from Microsoft that you can pay for fully up front and not have to pay a subscription fee to use it.
well allot of their ad money comes from companys that are pulling the riaa's strings.
so rather then risk them losing money they keep quiet.
nope sorry.
choose one random game and 9 out of 10 times you can't get a demo of it.
also the ones you do get play better then the actual games now, company's have turned them into a form of advertisement which hurts your ability to choose IF the game is worth half a weeks grocery's.
i would rather download the full game, see that it sucks and be glad i did not waste the $50-$60. instead of download the demo, like it because they made it better then the game then go out and waste that money on the full game which i can't return because no store will accept a open box of software.
I can't even go out and sell it to a buy/sell/ or trade store because these company's actually go out of their way to close them down.
here is a idea for a mmorpg pay model.
you sign up for a universal mmorpg pay pass. you will need to give them all your personal information including your last pay stub. then they just directly deduct 25 dollars per game per month you sign up for. if you loose your job they take it out of your savings. if your savings are empty they arrange for a loan(with a modest 10-15% interest rate).
your going to be throwing $100's annually without a second thought. might as well give them a free pass to your finances.
The main reason for the success of these games is not that they provide people with something good, it's that the general populace doesn't know how to think more then a few months ahead and do something simple as ADD. They are also ripping you off on the cost as well considering if they can support the game and turn a profit with the 6 month plan means they are easily charging you double or more then what they should for monthly fees.
W.o.W.
$14.99 per month x 12 months = $179.88
face it. The reason why games are dieing is that they got greedy. Pirating is only a symptom of this not the problem.
Lower your prices, and i promise you will see a increase in sales
not to vote this time around. honestly from what i have seen the system has been corrupted in a way that you cannot make effective change from within the system. you can't get any higher then your local city government if you refuse to sell out to the corporations on either major party(which in my honest opinion is the reason why we only see dem's and repub's higher up.)
i am going to hunker down and wait for the firestorm to blow over and then try to help who ever survives pick up the pieces.
it's only modern misunderstanding that started the view that fat from food = fat on your body thus fat from food is bad.
it was fat(the good kind of fat, saturated fat is the bad kind) and protein from meat that fueled our development and allowed our brain to be so energy hungry compared to the rest of our body.
it's called affluent malnutrition for a reason, modern food can keep you alive but doesn't provide all you need. even healthy diets miss the point, mainly due to insisting you eat food like grains that have to be highly processed to remove most of the stuff that our body can't process or is poisonous to us.
also moderation is needed.
thats mainly because of the well documented hight crash humans had once we started agriculture.
in fact our highet has only recently returned to the pre-agriculture norm.
no, nature doesn't care or exhibit any emotions.
the mutation spread because of advantages it gives int his temporary situation. though those advantages though are temporary. also milk contains more then just lactose and nutrients it contains hormones and enzymes that are tailored for bovines, processing can take most but not all of them out. so bovine milk falls into the edible but un-healthy catagory of food.
nope. while soap helped stopped some diseases, the vast majority have been stopped due to adding anti-bacterial products to the same soaps. even then most of them are the cause of living together in such large numbers with such easy travel between large population centers.
while our obsession on anti-biotic this and that has created a world where people lack immunities to bugs that our ancestors would of shrugged off. as anyone should know when you are born you share the same anti-bodies as your mother for the first two weeks of life for protection while the baby's own anti-bodies learn from them. this is how polio became such a problem it's a weak virus but when has no immunity it's devastating. also it doesn't just stop there.
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it's also what we eat. the human body evolved to basically eat animals for fat and protein and fruit/veggies for the rest, this may surprise people but we did not evolve to eat grain or dairy(other then human breast milk) yet the majority of our current food has the following.
* Highly processed foods that are deficient in important vitamins and minerals
* Synthetic food compounds
* High in refined sugars
* High in saturated fat
* Deficient in fiber
* Mega-size portions
* High in calories
you can drink milk only because of a recent mutation of a human gene. a normal human would not be able to eat any kind of dairy with lactose in it because once they reach maturity the gene for that gets turned off. this was about 6,000 years ago. the rest of the stuff in cow milk other then the nutrients are things we are not evolved to eat and might be the cause of some of out illnesses, along with the lectains in grain which can even block the absorption of protein.
more information.
http://www.earth360.com/diet_paleodiet_balzer.htm
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/318/7
to assume we know better then nature is the epitome of ignorance.
could it actualy be the leader of the stunticons? i think his name was motormaster?
some teachers say they will fail any student who lists wiki-pedia as a source.
in the days before corporations were considered people(it was a huge mistake to consider them people btw) doing what Microsoft does would of resulted in their charter being nullified by the government and all it's assets being seized before being auctioned off to it's competitors. along with what ever charges need to be filed against the people responsible. stuff like this encouraged proper behavior by actually giving teeth to the consequences when a company misbehaved. now all they get is a fine that is a small fraction of their income and toothless warning not to do it again.
it's about time governments grew a spine and started to fight back against multi-national corporations.
diablo 2 and oblivion are story based games?? *ROTFLOL*
Would they realy admit it?
that apple had motherboard maker foxconn make their ipods in china using basically sla.. excuse me indentured servant labor. the only thing apple does make themselves is their so called image. even their os is heavily based on a bsd clone. as for a gui, i hate to point it out to you that just about any person who knows the api calls can do the same so it's no real feat there, ever look at the tons of themes and engines available for kde and gnome as well as window-blinds?
must be realy pissed at him. they probibly were expecting to have all that money themselves.
it looks like people will go to the older more efficeint systems to play. the psx surprises me with the 4-6 watt usage. also people might think the costs are minor now with 15 cents per kwh, but wait till it's 45 to 60 cents.
half the stuff you see in your house was most likely made in a sweat shop in Asia. to put it bluntly the first world can't exist without the exploitation of the third world, whether it be for natural resources such as oil, natural gas, ore, or even slave labor.
the point is that it should not be doing this in the first place.
how to jipe customers out of over $100 for the whole game when sold normaly would only cost $50.
i don't call any of those reviews because they fail to say the reason that the performance drops is because the system has to draw MORE objects with the card in it then without it.
take anandtech's review. they turn the object number up to about 4x the amount compared to the software only test, the result is of course obvious because the gpu has to draw 4x~ the amount of objects.
i have yet to find a single review that does not do what anandtech does, which is stack the deck against ageia.
btw in a proper review you get rid of all the variables other then the one you want to test. in this case they should of turned the object number down to the same level as the software only solution had it.
i won't touch it because of the hdcp support.
i do not want a card especially a $600+ dollar one to artificially limit what i can and can't see.